Instant rice is a white rice that is partly precooked and then is dehydrated and packed in a dried form similar in appearance to that of regular white rice. That process allows the product to be later cooked as if it were normal rice but with a typical cooking time of 5 minutes, not the 20–30 minutes needed by white rice (or the still greater time required by brown rice). This process was invented by Ataullah K. Ozai‐Durrani in 1939[1] and mass-marketed by General Foods starting in 1946 as Minute Rice, which is still made.[2]
Instant rice is not the "microwave-ready" rice that is pre-cooked but not dehydrated;[3] such rice is fully cooked and ready to eat, normally after cooking in its sealed package in a microwave oven for as little as 1 minute for a portion. Another distinct product is parboiled rice[4] (also called "converted" rice, a trademark[5] for what was long sold as Uncle Ben's converted rice); brown rice is parboiled to preserve nutrients that are lost in the preparation of white rice, not to reduce cooking time.
^"A. K. Ozai‐Durrani, Made 'Minute Rice'". The New York Times. 5 May 1964.
^Foundation, Encyclopaedia Iranica. "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
^메트로신문. "[메가 히트 상품 탄생스토리]CJ제일제당 햇반". 메트로신문 (in Korean). Retrieved 23 May 2019.
^"What is Converted Rice?".
^"CONVERTED Trademark of MARS, INCORPORATED., the Serial Number: 71619568".
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